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The Attack on Economic Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger
I am writing to ask you to help us fund a special project that involves reprinting in booklet form an 11-part essay entitled “Economic Liberty and the Constitution,” which I wrote for our monthly journal, Freedom Daily, in 2003. This essay is a direct, frontal assault on the socialism, interventionism, and fiat-money standard that have pervaded our land since at the least the time of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal....read more
Friday, July 3, 2009
We can all no doubt remember having found ourselves suddenly under the influence of an idea, the source of which we cannot possibly identify. ‘It came to us afterward,’ as we say; that is, we are aware of it only after it has shot up full-grown in our minds, leaving us quite ignorant of how and when and by what agency it was planted there and left to germinate…For some time it is inert; then it begins to fret and fester until presently it invades the man’s conscious mind and, as one might say, corrupts it. Meanwhile, he has quite forgotten how he came by the idea in the first instance, and even perhaps thinks he has invented it; and in those circumstances, the most interesting thing of all is that you never know what the pressure of that idea will make him do.
— Albert Jay Nock, “Isaiah's Job” [1936]
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